Great Expectations
- Client:
- Ode
- Deliverables:
- Three-page cover article
Great Expectations
ODE, Spring 2010
The positive psychology practice of hope therapy can alleviate mild mood disorders and boost happiness—all without lengthy sessions on the couch or expensive medications.
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Home is Where the Food Grows
- Client:
- Terrain Magazine
- Deliverables:
- Four-page article, plus photography
Catherine Ryan writes about how people are converting their lawns to mini-farms as the recession lingers. The article also includes lawn to garden conversion tips from sustainable landscape designer Joshua Thayer and photography by Catherine Ryan.
Family Forever
- Category:
- Family & Lifestyle, Health & Fitness
- Client:
- Self Magazine
- Deliverables:
- One-page personal essay
Essayist Catherine Ryan writes about getting inked with her mother and sisters to commemorate a decade of remission from breast cancer. Pink ribbon tattoos represent their indelible bond after surviving as a family, she explains in Self’s annual Women’s Cancer Handbook.
How to Organize and Store Vital Family Documents
- Category:
- Family & Lifestyle
- Client:
- Life & Beauty Weekly
- Deliverables:
- Online editorial
Unruly piles of paper and overflowing filing cabinets are no match for these ten simple steps to organizing your most important documents, files and photos.
DIY Disguises
- Category:
- Family & Lifestyle
- Client:
- Parents Magazine
- Deliverables:
- Seven-page coverline feature
Easy-to-make Halloween costumes that save time, money and the environment will have little trick-or-treaters collecting loot in style. The outfits were concepted and created by writer and crafter Catherine Ryan.
Picture Perfect
- Category:
- Family & Lifestyle
- Client:
- Parents Magazine
- Deliverables:
- Four-page article
Experts offer the easiest and most effective tips to photograph children. Snap-happy parents and technophobes alike will learn to capture poignant, in-the-moment images without reading an unwieldy manual.
Eat to Beat Jet Lag
- Category:
- Food & Nutrition
- Client:
- Self Magazine
- Deliverables:
- 350-word item
Food fixes help readers avoid and relieve traveling tummy trouble, especially around the gastro-decadence of Thanksgiving.
Get Gutsy
- Category:
- Psychology
- Client:
- Self Magazine
- Deliverables:
- One-page article
Everyday courage isn’t innate; it can be taught, and positive psychology’s leading experts reveal how to make bravery a part of your personality.
Play Your Way Slim
- Category:
- Health & Fitness
- Client:
- Self Magazine
- Deliverables:
- Six-page feature
Your parents probably told you to go out and play; now one of the leading women’s fitness magazines agrees! This outdoor workout, designed to take place on common playground equipment, offers eight original moves to scorch calories and tone trouble spots.
The Best Ways to Love the Planet
- Category:
- Conscious Living
- Client:
- Self Magazine
- Deliverables:
- Four-page article
Earth-friendly tips fit even the busiest lifestyle and promise to reduce readers’ carbon footprints with minor effort.
